Microservices
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Microservices skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 23 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 90 65 82
Rank change year-on-year -25 +17 -26
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 1,950 1,936 2,729
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.94% 3.94% 2.95%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.64% 4.38% 3.60%
Number of salaries quoted 1,408 968 1,959
10th Percentile £46,250 £49,850 £43,750
25th Percentile £52,500 £57,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £72,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - +11.54% -13.33%
75th Percentile £93,634 £95,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £107,500 £115,000 £107,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -7.14% +12.00% -5.30%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK

Microservices falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 73,858 44,154 75,761
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.61% 89.93% 81.83%
Number of salaries quoted 51,064 24,939 51,848
10th Percentile £30,500 £28,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,599 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,043 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.01% +0.08% -8.71%
75th Percentile £78,750 £76,250 £73,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,528 £93,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% - -9.09%

Microservices
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Microservices relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Microservices job vacancy trend in the UK

Microservices
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Microservices.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Microservices

Microservices
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Microservices over the 6 months to 23 July 2026.

Salary histogram for Microservices in the UK

Microservices
Top 18 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Microservices within the UK over the 6 months to 23 July 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -26 1,706 £75,000 +3.45% 741
UK excluding London -42 1,049 £65,000 -7.14% 421
Work from Home -17 888 £65,000 -7.14% 362
London -11 759 £85,000 +3.03% 414
North of England -34 368 £69,310 -2.37% 134
South East +5 278 £65,000 -7.14% 139
North West -48 200 £75,000 +8.70% 71
South West -42 120 £57,500 -16.09% 39
Midlands -61 97 £67,500 +3.85% 54
North East +20 88 £65,000 +18.18% 24
Yorkshire -22 80 £60,000 -16.66% 39
West Midlands -43 70 £78,750 +12.50% 31
Wales -10 57 £70,000 +34.62% 11
Northern Ireland -23 56 £72,500 +45.00% 17
East of England -14 44 £60,100 -3.84% 13
Scotland -54 31 £60,000 -23.87% 19
East Midlands -60 26 £64,000 +6.67% 23
Isle of Man - 3 £35,000 - 4

Microservices
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 35 (1.79%) Confluence
2 25 (1.28%) Apache Spark
3 16 (0.82%) CMS
3 16 (0.82%) IIS
4 14 (0.72%) Apache
5 10 (0.51%) Camunda
6 9 (0.46%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 8 (0.41%) JBoss
7 8 (0.41%) WordPress
8 7 (0.36%) nginx
8 7 (0.36%) OpenStack
9 5 (0.26%) Apache Airflow
9 5 (0.26%) Drupal
10 4 (0.21%) GeoServer
10 4 (0.21%) Sitecore CMS
10 4 (0.21%) Umbraco
11 3 (0.15%) DNN
11 3 (0.15%) Kentico
11 3 (0.15%) NServiceBus
11 3 (0.15%) Sitefinity
Applications
1 12 (0.62%) MS Visio
2 8 (0.41%) Chatbot
3 6 (0.31%) PlantUML
4 3 (0.15%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.10%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 9 (0.46%) Dynamics CRM
2 8 (0.41%) Payment Gateway
3 6 (0.31%) Oracle Retail
4 4 (0.21%) Dynamics AX
4 4 (0.21%) Oracle EBS
5 3 (0.15%) SAP S/4HANA
6 2 (0.10%) Shopify
7 1 (0.051%) Eikon
7 1 (0.051%) RMDS
7 1 (0.051%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 1,009 (51.74%) AWS
2 840 (43.08%) Azure
3 333 (17.08%) GCP
4 265 (13.59%) Serverless
5 236 (12.10%) GitHub
6 185 (9.49%) SaaS
7 169 (8.67%) Azure DevOps
8 129 (6.62%) AWS Lambda
9 110 (5.64%) Amazon EKS
10 109 (5.59%) Amazon S3
11 100 (5.13%) AWS CloudFormation
12 98 (5.03%) GitHub Copilot
13 91 (4.67%) Azure Service Bus
14 79 (4.05%) Amazon ECS
15 67 (3.44%) Amazon EC2
16 66 (3.38%) GitHub Actions
17 64 (3.28%) Amazon SQS
17 64 (3.28%) Azure AKS
18 52 (2.67%) PaaS
19 49 (2.51%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 64 (3.28%) Broadband
2 23 (1.18%) Network Security
3 15 (0.77%) MQTT
4 13 (0.67%) DMARC
5 10 (0.51%) DNS
6 8 (0.41%) AMQP
6 8 (0.41%) Firewall
6 8 (0.41%) Internet
6 8 (0.41%) VPN
7 7 (0.36%) Hyperconnected
8 6 (0.31%) Cisco ASA
8 6 (0.31%) DHCP
8 6 (0.31%) HTTP
8 6 (0.31%) RFID
8 6 (0.31%) TCP/IP
9 4 (0.21%) LTE
10 3 (0.15%) Modbus
11 1 (0.051%) HTTPS
11 1 (0.051%) PSTN
11 1 (0.051%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 302 (15.49%) MongoDB
2 220 (11.28%) PostgreSQL
3 201 (10.31%) NoSQL
4 166 (8.51%) Azure SQL Database
5 161 (8.26%) Elasticsearch
6 122 (6.26%) MySQL
7 105 (5.38%) SQL Server
8 88 (4.51%) Relational Database
9 64 (3.28%) Redis
10 51 (2.62%) DynamoDB
11 48 (2.46%) Amazon RDS
12 31 (1.59%) Big Data
13 22 (1.13%) RDBMS
14 19 (0.97%) BigQuery
15 12 (0.62%) Db2
15 12 (0.62%) DTS
16 11 (0.56%) Data Lake
16 11 (0.56%) Pinecone
17 10 (0.51%) Geospatial Data
18 8 (0.41%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 239 (12.26%) Git
2 187 (9.59%) GitLab
3 158 (8.10%) Jenkins
4 60 (3.08%) JIRA
5 58 (2.97%) TeamCity
6 55 (2.82%) JUnit
7 43 (2.21%) Cucumber
8 33 (1.69%) Cypress.io
8 33 (1.69%) Mockito
9 31 (1.59%) Claude Code
10 24 (1.23%) Maven
11 23 (1.18%) CircleCI
12 21 (1.08%) Selenium
13 19 (0.97%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 18 (0.92%) SonarQube
15 13 (0.67%) Spock
16 12 (0.62%) JMeter
16 12 (0.62%) Postman
16 12 (0.62%) Vite
17 11 (0.56%) REST Assured
General
1 462 (23.69%) Finance
2 349 (17.90%) Social Skills
3 197 (10.10%) Public Sector
4 162 (8.31%) Banking
5 119 (6.10%) Retail
6 116 (5.95%) Law
7 114 (5.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 111 (5.69%) Analytical Skills
9 72 (3.69%) Legal
10 56 (2.87%) Financial Institution
11 47 (2.41%) Back Office
12 38 (1.95%) Marketing
13 30 (1.54%) Influencing Skills
14 28 (1.44%) Legal Technology
15 23 (1.18%) Aerospace
16 21 (1.08%) Advertising
16 21 (1.08%) Telecoms
17 19 (0.97%) Games
18 17 (0.87%) Front Office
19 15 (0.77%) Billing
Job Titles
1 744 (38.15%) Developer
2 466 (23.90%) Senior
3 347 (17.79%) Software Engineer
4 297 (15.23%) Lead
5 264 (13.54%) Architect
6 206 (10.56%) .NET Developer
7 174 (8.92%) Senior Developer
8 150 (7.69%) Full-Stack Developer
9 146 (7.49%) Java Developer
10 133 (6.82%) Java Engineer
11 113 (5.79%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 108 (5.54%) Senior Software Engineer
13 103 (5.28%) Solutions Architect
14 95 (4.87%) Principal Engineer
15 83 (4.26%) Software Developer
16 73 (3.74%) DevOps Engineer
17 71 (3.64%) Lead Developer
18 59 (3.03%) Lead Software Engineer
19 55 (2.82%) Technical Leader
20 53 (2.72%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 531 (27.23%) .NET
2 421 (21.59%) React
3 413 (21.18%) Node.js
4 321 (16.46%) Spring
5 301 (15.44%) Spring Boot
6 285 (14.62%) RESTful
7 256 (13.13%) REST
8 241 (12.36%) Kafka
9 233 (11.95%) ASP.NET
10 214 (10.97%) .NET Core
11 210 (10.77%) AngularJS
12 205 (10.51%) Vue
13 192 (9.85%) ASP.NET Core
14 110 (5.64%) Blazor
15 107 (5.49%) ASP.NET Web API
16 98 (5.03%) .NET Framework
17 93 (4.77%) HTML
18 87 (4.46%) CSS
19 80 (4.10%) gRPC
20 72 (3.69%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 580 (29.74%) Cloud Native
2 337 (17.28%) Distributed Systems
3 138 (7.08%) Product Ownership
4 100 (5.13%) Legacy Systems
5 84 (4.31%) Enterprise Software
6 58 (2.97%) Onboarding
7 57 (2.92%) Greenfield Project
8 47 (2.41%) Video\Live Streaming
9 45 (2.31%) Over-the-Top Content
10 41 (2.10%) Public Cloud
11 37 (1.90%) AI Agents
12 31 (1.59%) e-Learning
13 28 (1.44%) Virtual Team
14 27 (1.38%) Algorithms
14 27 (1.38%) Data Structures
15 26 (1.33%) Self-Motivation
16 24 (1.23%) Distributed Architecture
16 24 (1.23%) Legacy Applications
17 19 (0.97%) Mobile App
18 18 (0.92%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 122 (6.26%) Linux
2 46 (2.36%) Windows
3 21 (1.08%) Unix
4 18 (0.92%) CentOS
4 18 (0.92%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (0.31%) Windows Server
6 5 (0.26%) AIX
7 4 (0.21%) Debian
7 4 (0.21%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.051%) Android
8 1 (0.051%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.051%) Kali Linux
8 1 (0.051%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,023 (52.46%) CI/CD
2 930 (47.69%) Agile
3 691 (35.44%) DevOps
3 691 (35.44%) Software Engineering
4 555 (28.46%) Full-Stack Development
5 456 (23.38%) Mentoring
6 427 (21.90%) Containerisation
7 405 (20.77%) Event-Driven
8 402 (20.62%) AI
9 394 (20.21%) Test Automation
10 387 (19.85%) Continuous Improvement
11 367 (18.82%) Infrastructure as Code
12 358 (18.36%) Problem-Solving
13 276 (14.15%) Scrum
14 255 (13.08%) Technical Leadership
15 254 (13.03%) Event-Driven Architecture
16 239 (12.26%) TDD
17 218 (11.18%) Clean Code
18 215 (11.03%) Coaching
19 202 (10.36%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 631 (32.36%) Java
2 545 (27.95%) C#
3 487 (24.97%) SQL
4 470 (24.10%) Python
5 438 (22.46%) JavaScript
6 360 (18.46%) TypeScript
7 120 (6.15%) Go
8 53 (2.72%) Scala
9 50 (2.56%) Ruby
10 45 (2.31%) C++
11 41 (2.10%) PHP
12 39 (2.00%) Bash
13 26 (1.33%) Bicep
13 26 (1.33%) PowerShell
14 25 (1.28%) Rust
15 22 (1.13%) C
16 15 (0.77%) PL/SQL
17 14 (0.72%) Kotlin
18 12 (0.62%) Groovy
19 11 (0.56%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 252 (12.92%) Security Cleared
2 178 (9.13%) Degree
3 173 (8.87%) SC Cleared
4 82 (4.21%) Computer Science Degree
5 65 (3.33%) AWS Certification
6 61 (3.13%) DV Cleared
7 41 (2.10%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 21 (1.08%) CISSP
9 19 (0.97%) Master's Degree
10 17 (0.87%) Azure Certification
11 10 (0.51%) BPSS Clearance
11 10 (0.51%) DBS Check
11 10 (0.51%) TOGAF Certification
12 9 (0.46%) MBA
12 9 (0.46%) PhD
13 7 (0.36%) CISM
14 5 (0.26%) AWS Certified Developer
14 5 (0.26%) Cisco Certification
14 5 (0.26%) Microsoft Certification
15 4 (0.21%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 197 (10.10%) QA
2 73 (3.74%) Accessibility
3 41 (2.10%) GDPR
4 39 (2.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 32 (1.64%) WCAG
6 23 (1.18%) SOC 2
7 22 (1.13%) PCI DSS
8 19 (0.97%) NIST
9 16 (0.82%) NCSC
10 15 (0.77%) GRC
11 10 (0.51%) Actionable Recommendations
12 8 (0.41%) Cyber Essentials
12 8 (0.41%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 7 (0.36%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 6 (0.31%) Data Quality
14 6 (0.31%) Government Security Classifications
15 5 (0.26%) PSD2
15 5 (0.26%) SEPA
16 4 (0.21%) California Consumer Privacy Act
17 3 (0.15%) IFRS
System Software
1 560 (28.72%) Docker
2 25 (1.28%) Active Directory
3 6 (0.31%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (0.21%) Firmware
4 4 (0.21%) NDS
5 2 (0.10%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.051%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 588 (30.15%) Kubernetes
2 348 (17.85%) Terraform
3 111 (5.69%) Ansible
4 99 (5.08%) Grafana
5 60 (3.08%) Prometheus
6 24 (1.23%) Argo
7 18 (0.92%) Puppet
8 16 (0.82%) Kibana
9 13 (0.67%) Cilium
9 13 (0.67%) Single Sign-On
10 8 (0.41%) HP Fortify
11 6 (0.31%) Progress Chef
12 4 (0.21%) Packer
12 4 (0.21%) Podman
13 2 (0.10%) MIIS
13 2 (0.10%) Opsgenie
13 2 (0.10%) Rancher
14 1 (0.051%) Istio
14 1 (0.051%) logstash
14 1 (0.051%) Nagios
Vendors
1 311 (15.95%) Microsoft
2 86 (4.41%) Google
3 63 (3.23%) Oracle
4 45 (2.31%) Typelevel
5 37 (1.90%) OpenAI
6 31 (1.59%) Splunk
7 24 (1.23%) Dynatrace
8 23 (1.18%) IBM
9 21 (1.08%) AppDynamics
10 19 (0.97%) Databricks
11 13 (0.67%) Adobe
11 13 (0.67%) OneLogin
11 13 (0.67%) SendGrid
12 12 (0.62%) Red Hat
12 12 (0.62%) Salesforce
13 11 (0.56%) Okta
13 11 (0.56%) SAP
14 10 (0.51%) ForgeRock
14 10 (0.51%) ServiceNow
15 7 (0.36%) HubSpot